service-sector PMI results

Some Geopolitical Relief but Not Out of the Woods

September 4, 2019

The British Parliament passed a bill late yesterday by a 328-301 margin to stop Prime Minister Johnson from engineering a no-deal breakaway from the EU on October 31. BoJo, as he is known, is expected to lose more votes today and to call snap elections for October 14th. It’s not clear the Parliament will authorize […] More

Further Market Anxiety from Syria and as FOMC Meeting Nears

September 4, 2013

Several stock markets posted large overnight losses.  In the Pacific Rim, equites fell 2.2% in Indonesia, 1.0% in the Philippines, 1.3% in Singapore and 0.7% in Australia.  Hong Kong, China and Taiwan dipped 0.3%, 0.2% and 0.1%, while a 1.8% advance of India’s Sensex and a 0.5% rise in Japan’s Nikkei proved exceptions to the […] More

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